Chinese Smugglers Use Crossbow and Fishing Line to Transport iPads, iPhones Over Border

Here’s one from the “I thought this only worked in the movies” files. It seems a group of Chinese smugglers wanting to avoid import duties on smuggled iPads and iPhones used a crossbow and fishing line to construct a zip line for the gadgets between the borders of Hong Kong and the PRC.

From this story on techlandtimes.com:How best to smuggle iPads and iPhones across the border? Until recently, a crossbow, a spool of high-test fishing line, and some good old fashioned gumption ostensibly proved to work pretty well.

As the story goes, smugglers stood on an upper-level balcony of a high rise building in Shenzhen and used a crossbow to shoot fishing line across a 300-meter (almost 1,000 feet) gap to a low-rise house just across the stream marking the border.